Battle of Kernstown

(Company A)

Operations in the Shenandoah Valley

Buckton Station (Company G)

Captain Gustavus Hammer was captured

Battle of Winchester

Lieutenant Henry Spencer was captured and would die in captivity.

Battle of Cedar Mountain

Lieutenant Colonel Crane was killed, Captain Moses O’Brien was mortally wounded and Major Scott and Captain William Hawley were wounded. Lieutenant Theodore Widvey was wounded and captured. Captain Hawley was promoted to lieutenant colonel effective this date.

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

Maryland Campaign

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

Battle of Antietam

The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment lost 27 men killed and 173 men wounded (ten mortally) out of the 340 men on the field. Colonel Ruger was lightly wounded and remained on the field in command. Lieutenants Alexander Reed and Joseph P. Shepard were mortally wounded. Captains William Parks, George Stevenson and George Whitman and Lieutenant William B. Dicks was wounded.

At the end of the battle the regiment gathered up enough Springfield rifles on the battlefield that they were able to throw away their old smoothbore muskets.

From the first War Department marker to Gordon’s Brigade in The Cornfield on the Antietam battlefield:

Gordon’s Brigade formed line at daybreak on the Hoffman farm and advanced in a southerly direction in support of Hooker’s Corps.

The 107th New York was detached to support Cothran’s Battery and the 13th New Jersey was held in reserve. The Brigade formed on either side of Ransom’s Battery on the high ground due east of D. R. Miller’s, where it repulsed an assault of Hood’s Division and its support and, moving south through the Cornfield, changed front to the right and took position behind the ridge parallel to the Hagerstown Pike, where it remained until it was relieved by the advance of Sedgwick’s Division and withdrawn to the East Woods.

From the second War Department marker to Gordon’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield:

Immediately after the withdrawl of Gordon’s Brigade to the East Woods, after being relieved by Sedgwick’s Division, it was ordered to the support of that Division in the West Woods.

The 13th New Jersey and 2nd Massachusetts advanced into this road – the former north and the latter south of this point – where they encountered such a destructive fire from the enemy that they were compelled to retire to the East Woods. Later in the day, the 13th New Jersey advanced into the woods west of the Dunkard Church and took position on the right of Greene’s Division.

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

The 3rd Wisconsin lost 21 men killed and 80 wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Scott was killed on May 1. Major Martin Flood was promoted to lieutenant colonel and Captain Edwin L. Hubbard of Company D  was promoted to major, both effective May 2.

Battle of Brandy Station 

Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Martin Flood.

Gettysburg Campaign

Battle of Gettysburg

The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel William Hawley. It brought 260 men to the field, losing two killed and eight wounded. Lieutenant Jasper Woodford was among the wounded.

From the monument:

This regiment went into position on the part of the line on the evening of July 1st. On the evening of July 2d it moved to the left to reinforce the 3d Corps; returned to this position the same night and remained until the morning of July 5.

Atlanta Campaign

Battle of Resaca

New Hope Church

Captain James W. Hunter was mortally wounded and Captain William Snow and Lieutenant Wilson Buck were wounded.

Lost Mountain

Gilgal or Golgotha Church

Assault on Kenesaw Mountain

Ruff’s Station

Chattahoochie River

Peach Tree Creek

Siege of Atlanta

The regiment would lose 47 men killed, 138 wounded and 1 missing between July and September.

March to the sea

The regiment left Atlanta with 467 men.

Montieth Swamp

Siege of Savannah

Campaign of the Carolinas

Taylor’s Hole Creek, Averysboro, North Carolina,

This was the regiment’s last action.

Battle of Bentonville

Bennett’s House

Surrender of Johnston and his army.